Whoever emerges from the special election in December holding my city’s mantle of leadership inherits a sports scene that is in the direst of straits.

Birmingham has 200,000 residents and not one professional sports franchise.

Pro football’s safety issue reaches critical mass

This season, the NFL seems eager to shrink it’s fan base.

It seems almost incomprehensible that half of college football’s regular season is over, but with [...]

Weekly sports columnist Matt Hooper takes sports to a place it’s never been… improv theatre.

Alone with my thoughts, with no game to cover…

Florence, Alabama. Corner of Stadium and Royal. December 11, 1993. The most cherished memory of my childhood. The greatest football game I ever saw…

The NCAA should be far more concerned about graduation rates, fiscal responsibility and rogue boosters rather than whether live-bloggers are giving you too much analysis too quickly.

After only one week of college football, I’ve already learned a lesson: My predictions were terrible.

Live coverage of today’s UAB/Rice game at Legion Field.

The Weekly’s comprehensive coverage of college football in the state of Alabama, week one.

It’s no secret that UAB’s football program hasn’t been very good of late. The team, [...]

The expectations for Nick Saban’s Tide are sky high for the 2009 season…but with so many new faces on both sides of the ball making their debut in 2009, are fans expecting too much?

With the start of the 2009 college football season just days away, fans are beginning to wonder what they can expect from first-year Auburn coach Gene Chizik. Well…

It occurred to me as I was watching the Hall of Fame Game last Sunday [...]

These past few weeks have given me an opportunity to do what do few of our city’s decision-makers will: fairly and openly listen to both sides of the dome debate, spend hours independently researching other cities with similar facilities and finally, come to a decision after weeks of thoughtful discourse and internal debate.

Valerie Abbott, the most vocal opponent to Birmingham’s planned multi-purpose domed facility, discusses her opposition to the project with Birmingham Weekly.

With the prospect of a multi-purpose domed facility in Birmingham now more certain than ever before, it behooves all of us to learn as much as we can about these behemoth structures.

To dome or not to dome? That is the question Birmingham has grappled with for better than a decade now.